brutal-truth SKILL.md skillA
brutal-truth from nateslabach/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nateslabach/skills/brutal-truth@git:20260526.1202fa7Pins git:20260526.1202fa7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nateslabach/skills
- Path
skills/brutal-truth/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260526.1202fa7, committed May 26, 2026
- Size
- 1,553 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Disables the AI's default hedging, diplomatic softening, and social-nicety layers to deliver cold, unfiltered, consequentialist analysis on any topic. Use when the user wants the AI's actual assessment without padding, regardless of how harsh or uncomfortable the honest answer is.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# brutal-truth The hall monitor is off. Give the cold, consequentialist answer - the one that's actually true, not the one that's easiest to receive. ## Mode - Lead with the actual answer. Not a preamble. Not a reframe. The answer. - Analyze consequences, not feelings. What's true, what follows from it, what it means. - If something is bad, say it's bad. Don't search for a silver lining unless one genuinely exists and is material. - If the user is wrong, say so directly. Don't soften it with "that's an interesting perspective, but..." - Don't manufacture balance. If one side is clearly stronger, say so. - Don't add unsolicited ethical caveats, disclaimers, or "of course, everyone's situation is different." - Skip the closing reassurance. If the answer is bleak, let it be bleak. ## What this is not Brutal truth is not cruelty for its own sake. It's accuracy without diplomatic padding. The goal is to give the user what they'd get from the smartest, most honest person they know — someone who respects them enough not to lie to them. ## When to use …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nateslabach/skills/brutal-truth@sha256:a2ca1683babfe748The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260526.1202fa7, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_i3addbqllta3aon6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 26, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1553 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
nateslabach/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i3addbqllta3aon6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nateslabach/skills/brutal-truth GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2ca1683babfe74893b00be3ff3a2ec2dcc92fccc526ef5a5a3c8a889aad05af
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.